Tuesday, March 15, 2011

still happening

They've been given 2 days to get off the farm, Mrs G says. "Drunken mobs" are at the gate. Someone caught and killed a buck and pinned it to the farmhouse fence. The warning: If they speak to the media, things will be worse for them. How can this still be happening, 10 years later? The embassy official says he can't help: in theory the family is protected by a BIPPA - an investment protection agreement -- but "there is no law and order." So...you're on your own. I sit here and type less than an hour away from where all this is taking place and a family is pulling out its suitcases and scrabbling for the photo albums and think: the story has not changed. Only now, no-one is interested, outraged, bothered. Not even those supposed to protect you. And I too feel weary with it all.

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